Improvement in cotton-bale ties



UNTTED STATES PATENT OFT-Tou.

JAMES J. MGOOMB, OF LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON-BALE TIES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 59,152, dated October23, 1866.

Toall whom lt may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES JENNINGS Mo- OOMB, at present residing atLiverpool, in the county of Lancaster, in that-part of the UnitedKingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, a citizen of theUnited States of America, have invented certain new and usefulimprovements in connecting the ends of flat metal bands or straps usedin the baling of cotton and other materials; anddo hereby declare thatthe following is a full and exact description thereof, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and gures ofreference marked thereon.

The nature of this my said invention consists in certain improvements inconnecting the ends of metal bands surrounding cotton and other bales bya peculiar mode ot folding the ends of the said metal bands, to preventthe same drawing, rendering, or slipping from the connecting tie orbuckle, and to insure strength in the bands at their junction with thenipping-ties, by which means I am enabled to use a band of less gagethan now generally practicable.

Now, it has been found in practice in some cases, where great pressurehas been used to condense the material to be packed, that withouty carethe band so connected may render or he drawn through the strap or bucklepiece for some little distance on the bale being released from pressure,and the bands are exceedingly apt to break or cut at their junction withthe buckle or tie piece.

The object of this my improvement is to prevent the rendering or drawingof the straps when applied to bales packed under pressure, or to suchportion of the bales as would apply extra pressure thereto.

To accomplish these improvements I turn or double one or both ends l ofthe irou or other metal band b or bale-strap to the inner side, so thatthere will be a fold or doubling of the iron or other metal strap, whichpre vents the drawing of the .straps out of the buckles or tie-pieces e,and insures strength at the nipping point.

The straps may be folded once or twice, if desired, thus insuring greatstrength to the bands at the nippingpoints, where they are most likelyto give whenl single, and which is simply done by doubling the ends ot'the balestrap sufficiently backward .to enable the strap to be turnedover in double, so that at the throat of the strap, resting on the nipof the buckle-piece, the band will be twofold, thus avoiding any chanceof the strap being cut off or broken by thenipping power of the sides ofthe buckle or tie piece; butshould the metal be of sufficient goodquality to stand the required stress at the nipping-point, only a smallportion of the end of theband may be turned in to prevent the drawing orrendering thereof, as will be readily seen ou reference to theaccompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of so much of a band aud atie orbuckle piece, known as the arrow-tie, as is necessary to show the modeof doubling the ends of the band when the metal is of suiiicient goodquality and strength to obviate the necessity of more than the thicknessof the band in the throat of the tie. Fig. 2 is a like sectionalelevation, showing the inode of bending the baud,

which may be of a smaller gage, and is seen g doubled in the throat ofthe tie-piece, thus not only preventing the rendering of the band, butalso increasing the strength thereot` at the nipping-points iu thethroat ot' the buckle or tie piece.

Having now fully described and aseer` tained the nature of this my saidinvention,

'and how I believe the same may be best carried into practical effect, Iwish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to the relativeproportions or dimensions of the several parts of the baud; but

What 1 claim as new and my invention is- Ihe peculiar manner of foldingthe metal bauds, as hereinbefore described, and illustrated by Figs. 1and 2, substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbeforedescribed aud set forth.

In witness whereof I, the said JAMES JEN- NINGS MGOOMB, have hereuntoset my hand and affixed my seal this 6th day of April, A. D. 1866.

JAMES, J. MeooMB. [L s] Witnesses:

WILLIAM WALKER,

0f 44 Castle Street, Liverpool. J. H. REDMOND,

Secretary to the abone-named William Walker.

